After all, he had previously obtained information collected by the Ministry of Commercial Affairs from maritime merchants, and there were quite a few refugees gathered here in Chaozhou.
When there is a problem, either solve it or solve the person who caused the problem!
This is the latest work discipline proposed by various departments of Xinghai Kingdom.
If you can't solve the problem, then don't sit in the hole and do nothing.
After some understanding, Feikeshi discovered that there were various reasons why only two thousand refugees had been taken away in the week before.
For example, the refugees do not quite believe the promises made by the naturalized people that they will be able to have enough to eat when they go to the South China Sea Island. Also, the refugees do not want to stray too far from home because it is difficult to leave their homeland.
The last reason is that the number of lucky boats traveling between Chaozhou and Xinghai City is too small. There are only five lucky boats in a week.
These five blessing boats were filled with 2,000 people, which was already a very hard work.
After learning about these situations, Feikeshi immediately reported the situation to Chief Executive Zheng Xiangdong through Xiaolingtong.
Hearing that there were now thirty to forty thousand refugees in Guangchaozhou, and that as time went by, a steady stream of refugees came from Hu Jian's side, Zheng Xiangdong almost suffered a cerebral hemorrhage from excitement.
No way, as mentioned before, Xinghai Kingdom is too short of population now.
If nothing else, if these 30,000 to 40,000 refugees could be brought back, a lot of problems would be solved.
In fact, according to the latest three-year development plan launched by the Ministry of National Development, if Xinghai Kingdom wants to meet the requirements of the development plan within three years, there will be a gap of 300,000 in population alone!
Zheng Xiangdong immediately convened a joint meeting of various departments of the Xinghai Kingdom and requested that all resources be temporarily allocated to the refugee plan.
All departments agreed to this request.
Even Sun Xuebin from the Ministry of Military Affairs had no objections.
This is not surprising, Xinghai Kingdom’s army and navy also need to expand!
But the problem is that as the number of troops has rapidly increased to nearly 7,000, it has become more difficult for the Ministry of Military Affairs to recruit new soldiers from the South China Sea Islands.
The reason for this is not only that the common people feel that there are three hardships in life, such as working as a soldier and selling tofu, but also because most young people have been recruited into farms, factories and various departments.
It can be said that the Ministry of Military Affairs has recruited all the remaining qualified young men.
This makes the management committees in various places want to recruit some young people to form an inspection department. The tax department's plans are progressing slowly, and they can only select some guys without too many bad records from the original yamen and inspections.
It can be said that if a large number of refugees enter the South China Sea Islands, the Ministry of Military Affairs will be the happiest department.
Soon, the Ministry of Military Affairs dispatched the newly outfitted Lingao.
This wooden-hulled ironclad ship will serve as an escort and accompany the newly established immigration fleet to perform missions in Chaozhou.
The newly established immigration fleet actually captured all the previously captured or purchased fortune ships and clippers. There were even two newly repaired steel fishing boats. They were rowed directly as soon as they left the repair shop and were not even equipped with turrets.
Entered the immigration fleet.
Of course, the addition of these two steel fishing boats is very beneficial. First, it increases the ability to transport immigrants. Secondly, the radar on the steel fishing boats can provide the fleet with a better reconnaissance vision and prevent them from being robbed by some pirates.
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The newly established immigration fleet sailed slowly towards Chaozhou, carrying a lot of starch.
These starches are made from potatoes.
Initially, the Ministry of Civil Affairs planned to ship a batch of vermicelli over, but since the vermicelli was produced, maritime merchants from all over the world have been snapping up the vermicelli. Except for part of it, which is stored in the treasury, the rest is in short supply.
As a result, the Ministry of Civil Affairs calculated the accounts and felt that it was really not cost-effective, so they simply loaded up a batch of starch.
Potato starch saves a processing step, so the cost is naturally much lower. Starch is used to make a paste for the refugees to eat. It has lower calories than vermicelli, so that the refugees will be full and have nothing to do and cause trouble.
In fact, since the establishment of the refugee camp in Chaozhou, more than fifty people have been hanged next to the refugee camp for making troubles, bullying women, etc.
In order to frighten the scum among the refugees, these hanged guys were kept hanging on the wooden stakes without putting them down. From a distance, you could smell the stench that hit your nostrils.
Compared to Chaozhou, the efficiency of other refugee points is much lower.
The main reason is that there are many maritime merchants here. When the harvest is not good, many maritime merchants will set up soup kitchens in their hometown for the sake of reputation.
Those refugees can eat without leaving the county. Although the porridge is a little thin, they will not starve to death.
With the background of those maritime merchants, it is not good to talk about Xinghai Kingdom going to sea. As the old saying goes, it is hard to leave the homeland.
Therefore, compared with the result that Chaozhou Refugee Point took away 2,000 refugees in one week, and then took away 5,000 refugees in the next week, the other nine refugee points together took away 3,000 refugees in one week, and the next week also took away 3,000 refugees.
Just five thousand, not only has the efficiency not increased much, but compared to the increase in manpower and material resources invested, it seems that the efficiency has also dropped.
However, just one Chaozhou refugee site made the Ministry of Civil Affairs responsible for accepting refugees very satisfied.
Because after September passed, the number of refugees from Hu Jian suddenly increased sharply.
Basically, the inflow of 30,000 people per week has been reached, and the number of refugees in the Chaozhou area has not decreased from the previous 30,000, but has increased to 100,000 by the end of October.
At this time, Feikeshi immediately adjusted the previous immigration plan, directly canceled 7 of the remaining 9 refugee sites, and moved all the naturalized people and materials from the 7 refugee sites to Chaozhou to strengthen Chaozhou.
Management of refugee sites.
No way, it is quite terrifying to have 100,000 refugees gathered in one place.
As the saying goes, if there are ten thousand people, there will be a sea of people.
These 100,000 refugees were hoarded outside the city of Chaozhou, almost turning it into a cave.
You can see dense burrows everywhere, with people crawling in and out. From a distance, they look like swarms of ants.
Due to the large number of people, the local maritime merchants could no longer bear such consumption. In addition, there were refugees from time to time looting the soup kitchen shacks, so they stopped giving soup early.
As soon as the maritime merchants stopped giving soup, the number of refugees who gathered at the refugee point and wanted to take a boat to sea suddenly increased.
However, it is not that simple to take a boat out to sea.
In order to prevent the disease from being brought into the South China Sea with the refugees, a new quarantine camp was established at the Chaozhou Refugee Point.
All refugees who want to board the ship must first register and then enter the quarantine camp for quarantine.
Obviously, those refugees are very uncomfortable with modern quarantine methods.